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  1 Pref   |            by many baptized Orthodox Christians, even those who maintain
  2 Intro,1|         apply to individual Orthodox Christians, specific parishes and the
  3 Intro,1|            except that most Orthodox Christians lack the zeal to observe
  4 Intro,1|           and the fear that Orthodox Christians are losing their moorings,
  5 Intro,1|            society of which Orthodox Christians themselves, like it or not,
  6 Intro,1|             first of all to Orthodox Christians themselves as ways of understanding
  7 Intro,1|        whether or not we as Orthodox Christians truly practice what we preach.
  8 Intro,2|          have bequeathed to Orthodox Christians a remarkably coherent and
  9 Intro,2|           Gregory of Nyssa, Orthodox Christians are to engage life not only
 10 Intro,3|           the challenge for Orthodox Christians is to integrate theory and
 11 Intro,4|            John Chrysostom, Orthodox Christians come out of worship like “
 12 Intro,6|           The challenge for Orthodox Christians is to recover more of our
 13 1,1    |              conviction of the early Christians, the Christian martyrs,
 14 1,2    |         generations of both Jews and Christians lost the purity of teaching
 15 1,2    |             unity between Christ and Christians. He writes:~ ~He [Christ]
 16 1,3    |              to hide the failings of Christians. On the contrary, he untiringly
 17 1,3    |              faith of the Corinthian Christians was grounded not in human
 18 1,4    |        emphasis on moral works, that Christians are justified and saved
 19 1,4    |             large and the witness of Christians within it. Saint John was
 20 1,4    |           whole series of appeals to Christians on the theme of the evangelistic
 21 1,4    |             with the quality of life Christians display. The Antiochean
 22 1,4    |             censures the failings of Christians. He comments that in his
 23 1,4    |              seemed to prevail among Christians themselves with respect
 24 1,4    |             The personal failures of Christians and the shortcomings of
 25 1,4    |  Christianity and culture. He wanted Christians to be keenly aware of this
 26 1,4    |           Saint John also admonished Christians to convince pagans by the
 27 1,4    |             blessings of the Gospel, Christians ought to celebrate all of
 28 1,4    |            of time is a festival for Christians, because of the abundance
 29 2,2    |    superficial practices by Orthodox Christians. They are largely misplaced
 30 2,2    |     presentation of the Gospel. Most Christians may be familiar with some
 31 2,2    |           ritual acts among Jews and Christians were not taken as merely
 32 2,3    |             to outsiders but also to Christians themselves. Evangelization
 33 2,3    |          Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians. The weakness lies in ecclesiology,
 34 2,3    |      grounded in community. Thus all Christians encounter one another as
 35 2,3    |       failings neither of individual Christians nor of the Church as an
 36 2,3    |       everywhere deems necessary for Christians under pain of God's judgment.[
 37 3,1    |      formerly evangelical Protestant Christians joined in mass the Orthodox
 38 3,1    |            discomforting to Orthodox Christians born into the Orthodox faith.
 39 3,2    |             the Churches, since many Christians, both leaders and ordinary
 40 3,2    |       secular terms even by Orthodox Christians. He critiqued the inundation
 41 3,3    |             a few decades, the early Christians founded communities in virtually
 42 3,3    |      community and family life among Christians, transcending racial, social,
 43 3,3    | disagreements in the ancient Church, Christians possessed a strong sense
 44 3,3    |             as brothers and sisters. Christians nurtured a consciousness
 45 3,3    |          everything permissible, the Christians had the disarming ability
 46 3,3    |       publicly acknowledged that the Christians helped not only themselves
 47 3,3    |             good news. For the early Christians the proclamation of the
 48 3,3    |          based on the assurance that Christians knew the true way of life
 49 3,3    |             in the case of the early Christians, similar results would follow.
 50 3,3    |            and celebrate as Orthodox Christians.~ ~
 51 3,4    |              in the parish. Orthodox Christians have a general familiarity
 52 3,4    |             in the days of the first Christians. When the name of Christ
 53 3,4    |          money, and to be far better Christians than they are with little
 54 3,4    |             inspiring and empowering Christians to live a life worthy of
 55 4,2    |              experience of the early Christians in response to the ministry
 56 4,2    |              eating of idol meats by Christians in Corinth, a custom bound
 57 4,2    |             of Christ whom the early Christians came to exalt and worship
 58 4,3    |      compares the sacred meal of the Christians to those of the Jews and
 59 4,3    |   appropriate holiness of life among Christians, whether in matters of sexual
 60 4,3    |            18-20), or disputes among Christians who file lawsuits before
 61 4,3    |            trinitarian language. The Christians are “chosen and destined
 62 4,3    |        sanctified by the Spirit, the Christians are to come “to that living
 63 4,3    |         faith and union with Christ, Christians are made children of God,
 64 4,4    |              power of God, the early Christians were driven by the conviction
 65 4,4    |            all that we are and do as Christians.~ Evangelism is integrally
 66 5,2    |            Gentiles, and even fellow Christians (Gal. 2:6-14). Nevertheless,
 67 5,2    |   exhortations to pray. He tells the Christians in Rome, “I remember you
 68 5,3    |            Saint Paul, who described Christians as “those who call upon
 69 5,4    |           with Him. Not infrequently Christians confess that they do not
 70 5,4    |             the Corinthians that the Christians themselves are now the living
 71 5,4    |           are cases of long-standing Christians who have turned away from
 72 6,1    |           love not only for Orthodox Christians, not for Christians alone,
 73 6,1    |         Orthodox Christians, not for Christians alone, but for all human
 74 6,2    |      criticize the implicit faith of Christians. To believe in Christ is
 75 6,3    |              Spirit. Silouan exhorts Christians to pray to the Virgin Mary
 76 6,5    |             Paul frequently exhorted Christians to be sober, vigilant, and
 77 6,6    |                The Staretz instructs Christians to take great pains to preserve
 78 7,3    |              new covenant enjoyed by Christians.~ In addition, the ecclesial
 79 7,3    |          same goal is set before all Christians, lay and clergy, that is,
 80 8,1    |           Jews, Gentiles, as well as Christians. He is after all the one
 81 8,3    |           Jews, Gentiles, as well as Christians in a rather conscious way.
 82 8,3    |           between Jews, Gentiles and Christians, and can thus serve as a
 83 8,3    |             branches are the Gentile Christians, formerly shoots of a wild
 84 8,3    |           are the minority of Jewish Christians, mentioned not in the illustration
 85 8,3    |  representing the Jewish and Gentile Christians are united by their common
 86 8,3    |              the other for (Gentile) Christians. According to Saint Paul'
 87 8,3    |             exists, not only between Christians and unbelieving Jews, but
 88 8,3    |     disobedience, just like Gentiles Christians were previously in a state
 89 8,3    |           the contrary warns Gentile Christians three times not to be haughty
 90 8,3    |             Israelites,” the Gentile Christians engrafted on the good olive
 91 8,3    |   Greek-speaking Jews who had become Christians, seemed to have questioned
 92 8,3    |     persecutor of these same kind of Christians, took up their cause and
 93 8,3    |            also by right-wing Jewish Christians, those whom he names “false
 94 8,3    |           Church. Some of the Jewish Christians insisted that Gentiles Christians
 95 8,3    |    Christians insisted that Gentiles Christians had to be circumcised to
 96 8,3    |           saved (Acts 15:1). Gentile Christians in the Galatian churches
 97 8,3    |             has ended and from which Christians are now free (Gal. 3:15:
 98 8,3    |             to persecution of Jewish Christians and their expulsion from
 99 8,3    |           much to say to us Orthodox Christians with the blessings and burdens
100 8,4    |             self-introduction to the Christians in Rome, the Apostle Paul
101 8,4    |              book entitled The Early Christians: Their World Mission and
102 8,4    |        Judaism, including the Jewish Christians, only the Christian Hellenists
103 8,4    |           Examples abound. The Roman Christians must shun drunkenness and
104 8,4    |      Corinthians, chapters 8-10. Are Christians allowed to eat the meat
105 8,4    |              gods and lords, yet for Christians there is one God, the Father,
106 8,4    |              theirs as well. But the Christians have their own distinctive
107 8,4    |         Christ (10:14-22). While the Christians are permitted table fellowship
108 8,4    |         Wayne Meeks, The First Urban Christians (1983), builds up a detailed
109 8,4    |            clear consciousness among Christians that they constituted, along
110 8,4    |         Meyer in his book, The Early Christians (1986), takes to task a
111 8,4    |    challenging insights for Orthodox Christians today as we face the dramatic
112 9,1    |             Saint Paul and the early Christians, in order to see the treasures
113 9,3    |            of the faithful. Orthodox Christians were again permitted to
114 9,3    |          about ourselves as Orthodox Christians in America seeking to affirm
115 9,3    |           persecuted by Jews, Jewish Christians, Gentiles and sometimes
116 9,3    |             anguish and tears to the Christians in Corinth (2 Cor. 2:4).
117 10,1   |              existing?~ For Orthodox Christians the highest goal of human
118 10,2   |              our failure as Orthodox Christians to nurture the holy fire
119 10,2   |          Orthodoxy, nor all Orthodox Christians, make up a burning bush
120 10,3   |             advocating that Orthodox Christians, as they grow to adulthood,
121 10,4   |              the problem of Orthodox Christians. It is the former because
122 10,4   |             It involves all Orthodox Christians, lay people, priests and
123 10,4   |              stress” when some false Christians and false Christian leaders
124 10,5   |              we wish to be enfeebled Christians burdened with an inferiority
125 10,5   |             problem of many Orthodox Christians being born and baptized
126 11,1   |              Aspects of how Orthodox Christians can relate to the Jewish
127 11,2   |            such as Jews and Orthodox Christians to hold on with faithfulness
128 11,2   |             Bulgarians were Orthodox Christians! Another picture in the
129 11,2   |        Christianity was for Orthodox Christians themselves. If our Orthodox
130 11,3   |            consciousness of Jews and Christians. Alternate terms are fidelity,
131 11,3   |  understanding of God, both Jews and Christians are bound together by their
132 11,3   |            servants, whether Jews or Christians, are called to walk humbly
133 11,3   |          especially between Jews and Christians, is not only too late in
134 11,4   |            Both as Jews and Orthodox Christians we do not come to the contemporary
135 11,4   |             spirituality as Jews and Christians in obedience to the living
136 11,4   |           conflicts between Jews and Christians have ultimately derived
137 11,4   |           issues. We are as Jews and Christians, both historically and theologically,
138 11,4   |             Jews, and sometimes upon Christians, perhaps God would not have
139 11,4   |            witness, between Jews and Christians, despite the sad history
140 11,4   |             It is true that Jews and Christians have sharply clashing views
141 11,4   |      Christian communities. Jews and Christians, mindful of their primary
142 11,4   |          notwithstanding the sins of Christians. A Christian qua Christian
143 11,4   |      repentance before the Lord God? Christians above all on account of
144 11,4   |        disagreement between Jews and Christians can be faithfully treated
145 11,4   |           communities. In particular Christians ought to re-learn and be
146 11,4   |              severely warned Gentile Christians not to be haughty or boastful
147 11,4   |              shamefully forgotten by Christians in history (Rom. 11:17-22).
148 11,4   |          Himself (Rom. 11:15,28-36). Christians have remembered the Jews
149 11,4   |        beloved” of God (Rom. 11:28). Christians have taken to heart Saint
150 11,4   |           have been quite different. Christians in history would not have
151 11,4   |              be in His eyes, just as Christians are also His people, disobedient
152 11,4   |             of His peoples, Jews and Christians, a charge to fulfill. We
153 11,4   |           the Mosaic Law for Gentile Christians, he neither expected nor
154 11,4   |         probably easier for Orthodox Christians than for Jews. However,
155 11,4   |           live in the West, Orthodox Christians included, this subject appears
156 11,4   |           point is that the Galatian Christians have begun to practice Jewish
157 11,4   |                on the basis of which Christians, too, will be judged by
158 11,4   |             Faith Fulfilled: Why Are Christians Across Great Britain Embracing
159 11,4   |             under the title Orthodox Christians and Jews on Continuity and
160 11,4   |             under the title Orthodox Christians and Muslims, edited by N.
161 11,4   |            areas of friction between Christians and Jews in the Byzantine
162 11,4   |              there are Arab Orthodox Christians whose human rights are violated
163 11,4   |            the rights of Palestinian Christians and Muslims numerous times,
164 11,4   |        futile.” A number of Orthodox Christians would agree but the majority
165 11,4   |        because it is, on the part of Christians, a foolish and destructive